18 Awesome Wine Quotes

I always love finding and reading quotes about wine. Here’s a collection of a few that I thought were worth sharing. Enjoy, and please post any other wine quotes you’d like to share in the comments below.

– Andrew, Editor

“Wine is sunlight held together by water.” – Galileo

“What I like most is wine that belongs to others.” – Diogenes

“We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.” – Carl Jung

“In Europe we thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also a great giver of happiness and well being and delight. Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary.” — Ernest Hemingway

“Language is wine upon the lips.” – Virginia Woolf

“Wine is bottled poetry.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.” — Hannibal Lecter, The Silence of the Lambs

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